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Standard Solitaire

This is a very nice, wooden Solitaire game with cool blue marbles. A quality gift for anyone who loves games or just well-made presentation articles.

From the House of Marbles, the world's premier manufacturer of marbles and marbles' games.

Made in Britain

9" Standard Solitaire

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Set includes 33 marbles. Diameter: 23cm (9")

This product contains small parts that represent a choking hazard for small children. Not suitable for children under 5 years old.

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House of Marbles 9 inch standard Solitaire

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History of Solitaire

The popular modern game of Solitaire is played on a Fox and Geese board. The game was supposedly invented by a French count who was incarcerated in prison (there are references in French sources back to 1697) and is really a puzzle more than a game. Solitaire was brought to England in the eighteenth century. You start with all the pegs (or balls) in the holes except the middle hole. Then each turn you hop one peg over another orthogonally but not diagonally. The piece hopped over is taken and removed from the board. The objective is to be left with a single peg in the middle. Similar games are found in Southern Asia but these are not of the Tafl group being descended from a separate source. Two examples are Cows and Leopards from Ceylon and Tigers and Goats, the National Game of Nepal.